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...billing with such guest performers as Singers Bobby Darin and Paul Anka while he works his beat on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Boyish-looking and hyper-hip, he is apparently convinced that murder can be fun. The show may have to go some to avoid the epitaph: "Quoth the ratings, nevermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The New Shows | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...Quoth John Calvin, "Men should not paint or carve anything but such as can be seen with the eye; so that God's majesty which is too exalted for human sight may not be corrupted by fantasies which have no true agreement therewith." All of which is the puritanical way of expressing the ancient adage, "I know nothing about art but I know what I like...

Author: By R. P. Gilman, | Title: The Plainstyle In Three Dimensions | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...suppose you know," quoth the Ibis with a smirk, "what the Raven said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errant Ibis and Yale 'Record' Owl Reported Planning to Attend Game | 11/23/1957 | See Source »

...received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list of banned books. Enterprising Publisher Ian Ballantine quickly had publicity-prone Shepherd ghostwrite such a book (with Fantasy-Fiction Writer Theodore Sturgeon). Some 30 days later they served up an 18th century creampuff (" 'Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a saucy bawd!' ") dedicated to night people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Night People | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Sullivans are here to stay," quoth Cambridge's new mayor, Edward J. Judging by last November's election results and his father's prolification--four sons and four daughters--who would argue? The elder Sullivan, "Mickey the Dude" to friend and foe alike, got himself elected to the City Council with enormous majorities and kept himself there until his death in 1949 by suing the Lampoon, threatening to change the name of Harvard Square, and decrying "the Godless communism raging within the ivy-covered walls." Eddie still rallies the voters under the "tow-away-student-cars" banner occasionally...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: The Son of the Dude | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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